2018-2019 ​Education Schedule

September 20th - Night Sky Photography with speaker Gordon Court

​September kicks off the new season of the Fargo Moorhead Camera Club with and education night.

We will be discussing night sky photography including shooting the milky way and aurora along with mentions on some other night sky phenomenon, and long exposure photography in general.

The milky way season is waning, but some great shots can still be had and the Aurora Borealis is just beginning. I will also do a short recap of the Gerry Beck Memorial Fly In in Battle Lake Minnesota. A great time was had by all in attendance.

I hope you all can make it out and bring a friend. I look forward to seeing you Thursday night!

October 18th - Storm Chasing with speaker Ryan Mauk

Since age 5, Ryan Mauk has been obsessed with tornadoes. Throughout his life, from as soon as he could legally drive to now, he has tried to see tornadic storms up close, the last few years he has intently studied the meteorology of severe weather and has doven even deeper, traveling hundreds of miles to see tornadoes, with 2015 being the most fruitful to date.

Aside from storm chasing Ryan is a Registered Nurse at a Fargo hospital, so on his days he is always prepared to assist any injured people as a first responder if the unthinkable happens. Other interests of his include filmmaking and music production, in which he is highly accomplished. In 2015 he directed and edited his first full-length full, "Aura" . He brings this knowledge into his film documentary of the weather he encounters and strives to present it as high-quality as possible.

Ryan is married and him and his wife have a son, Lyric, and a daughter on the way.

Light painting, painting with light, light drawing, or light art performance photography are terms that describe photographic techniques of moving a light source while taking a long exposure photograph, either to illuminate a subject or space, or to shine light at the camera to "draw", or by moving the camera itself during exposure of the light sources. Practiced since the 1880s, the technique is used for both scientific and artistic purpose, as well as in commercial photography.

Hope you can join us for an evening of fun. Please bring along you camera, tripod and cable release.​​

January 3rd - Adobe Lightroom Classic CC

​Come one, come all, members of the Fargo Moorhead Camera Club to a fun night of learning about Adobe Lightroom Classic CC (Same as Photoshop Camera Raw CC). My goal is to get you all proficient on how to process a raw photo in Lightroom Classic CC/Camera Raw to the point of submitting it for a Salon. ​We will cover:​

Importing photos and cataloguing.

Basic Processing including but not limited too;

Basic Tones and Color

Transform Tool

HSL panel

Brushes, Gradient and Radial Filters

Spot Removal

Cropping to sizes

Creating your own presets to speed everything up

Exporting to size for Salon, Internet, and printing.

Other burning questions.

If you are already a master of Lightroom or Camera Raw, come on out and help impart knowledge in the rest of us. Click on the link to viewGordon's night photography images

February 21st - C.A.A.R.E.

​The Center for Avian Adoption, Rescue, and Education (CAARE) is an all-volunteer, North Dakota, 501(c)(3), non-profit, parrot shelter devoted to the welfare of companion parrots. In the C.A.A.R.E. shelter, there are two dedicated rooms for parrots awaiting adoption: One for larger parrots and one for smaller parrots. They have an Adoption Process in place for finding the adoptable parrots the best home possible.

They also educate the public about the proper care of exotic birds whenever anyone not familiar with owning and caring for parrots comes into our shelter. They offer Memberships, which helps them to continue they mission and also provide a discount on most items available in their Avian Warehouse.​C.A.A.R.E. loves requests for on-site visits to colleges, schools, nursing homes, etc., or being a part of any pet-related events in the area! They ask that a donation be made to their shelter for such visit requests. If you are interested in learning about parrots or adopting one of the parrots in they care, they would love to help!

A few birds will be on display during Education Night so bring your camera and tripod for a chance to photograph these beautiful birds!

March 21st - Long Exposure & Filters

Angela Hoffman will be discussing how long exposure can be used to show the passage of time and show things in a different way than we are used to seeing them, creating additional interest in a photography. She will talk about techniques and tools used when preparing for and creating long exposure photographs. This will include the use of filters to both increase the exposure time along with helping to even out exposure between very bright and very dark areas in a scene.